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Janna - Posted - 07/29/2012: 17:09:54
I played banjo with our Uzbek musicians! It was so unusual for me to play banjo with live Uzbek musicians! 
They liked my banjo and bluegrass I played them and tried to play with me!
The tunes - Lazgi (Uzbek traditional) and then our favorite Foggy Mountain Breakdown!
It's a very strange mix!
I was worried, my heart was beating very strong, so please forgive me if I played not perfect 
It was just a rehearsal before the concert, but I didn't play there, because we had no time for more rehearsals, but I'm glad that someone recorded it on the mobile phone) So the sound is not very good, but all the instruments are live
Hope it will be interesting for you to hear American banjo with the Uzbek traditional instruments))
See the attachment)
Edited by - Janna on 07/30/2012 07:00:51
jwoods - Posted - 07/29/2012: 17:17:05
That sounds really good Janna!
The first song almost sounds like it could be Irish or Scottish...
JanetB - Posted - 07/29/2012: 17:29:28
East meets West here, with Celtic, American, and Oriental influence. How fun for you Janna!
Meles_Meles - Posted - 07/29/2012: 17:33:49
The first 30% of the track was kind of random and tentative, but after that it got good. By that I mean that you were playing more as an ensemble, rather than individual instrumentalists, and it sounded a lot better. Were you playing with a conductor, or just as a pro musica group?
Marc Nerenberg - Posted - 07/29/2012: 17:37:17
Very Cool - a highly original and interesting version of FMB that's for sure - the flute played what i think of as a harmonica break!
Janna - Posted - 07/29/2012: 17:39:52
I also was recorded the first tune - Lazgi in the past in studio
Janna - Posted - 07/29/2012: 17:42:47
quote:
Originally posted by Meles_Meles
Were you playing with a conductor, or just as a pro musica group?
They were a professional uzbek traditional musicians
Janna - Posted - 07/29/2012: 17:45:11
quote:
Originally posted by Marc Nerenberg
Very Cool - a highly original and interesting version of FMB that's for sure - the flute played what i think of as a harmonica break!
That guys never heard bluegrass music and banjo before))) They never heard Foggy Mountain Breakdown, they just made their own improvisation for the tune I played
Edited by - Janna on 07/29/2012 17:46:09
Paul Roberts - Posted - 07/29/2012: 20:55:51
Janna, your arrangement of Lazgi is a real classic, combining, as it does, the 5-string banjo with music from Central Asia. One of my all-time favorite banjo tunes! And a superb production job on the studio recording.
PauL
Paul Roberts - Posted - 07/30/2012: 02:31:10
...later...
Janna, you're really onto something with Lazgi. I've never heard the banjo communicate in this way and I have to say it's one of the most beautiful things I've ever heard in my life. The studio production is every bit as good as Andreas Vollenweider (do you know of his music? he's a harpist). Please - a whole album of this type of material. This type of music is truly unique to you and is, I believe, what is going to take you the farthest. I'm looking forward to the next installment.
PauL
g3zdm - Posted - 07/30/2012: 04:08:21
Wonderfully different mixing of genres and types; for me the familiar alongside the unfamiliar forced me to play your MP3 several times over.
It reminds me of some of the more unusual combinations that the (Irish) Chieftains have done over the last 2 decades.
The first tune reminded me a little of Brian Boru's March (11th century Irish). The unique FMB variations were great too.
Chris Muriel, Manchester UK.
Edited by - g3zdm on 07/30/2012 04:16:25
Marc Nerenberg - Posted - 07/30/2012: 04:17:28
quote:
Originally posted by Paul Roberts
...later...
Janna, you're really onto something with Lazgi. I've never heard the banjo communicate in this way and I have to say it's one of the most beautiful things I've ever heard in my life. The studio production is every bit as good as Andreas Vollenweider (do you know of his music? he's a harpist). Please - a whole album of this type of material. This type of music is truly unique to you and is, I believe, what is going to take you the farthest. I'm looking forward to the next installment.
PauL
I agree with Paul that you should record a lot more of this type of music (the studio version of Lazgi) on the banjo with this kind of arrangement and instrumentation. It's really excellent and totally unique. A whole album of this type of material would be an excellent thing for you to make ... and I think that album would be a starting point, not an ending!
Edited by - Marc Nerenberg on 07/30/2012 04:21:15
Marc Nerenberg - Posted - 07/30/2012: 04:18:55
That album should be your next big project, in my opinion! (And a traditional Uzbeki style version of Foggy Mountain Breakdown might be a cool thing to add to that album!)
Edited by - Marc Nerenberg on 07/30/2012 04:25:42
Banjophobic - Posted - 07/30/2012: 07:46:11
quote:
Originally posted by Marc Nerenberg
quote:
Originally posted by Paul Roberts
...later...
Janna, you're really onto something with Lazgi. I've never heard the banjo communicate in this way and I have to say it's one of the most beautiful things I've ever heard in my life. The studio production is every bit as good as Andreas Vollenweider (do you know of his music? he's a harpist). Please - a whole album of this type of material. This type of music is truly unique to you and is, I believe, what is going to take you the farthest. I'm looking forward to the next installment.
PauL
I agree with Paul that you should record a lot more of this type of music (the studio version of Lazgi) on the banjo with this kind of arrangement and instrumentation. It's really excellent and totally unique. A whole album of this type of material would be an excellent thing for you to make ... and I think that album would be a starting point, not an ending!
I agree with both Paul and Marc on that! No one is doling this kind of music on the banjo but you Janna. This will expose the world to your traditional music and to you as a banjoist. I love this melody and the structure of the rhythm. Your playing on here is superb! 
bhniko - Posted - 07/30/2012: 08:23:02
Your soul is beating through that banjo. Wonderful playing by all of you and the arranger should take a big, big bow.
Banjo - Posted - 07/30/2012: 08:32:02
Not to go too far off topic but I see that Uzbekistan got an Olympic Metal in Judo.
Laurence Diehl - Posted - 07/30/2012: 08:46:13
Fantastic music Janna, i agree with others here about Lazgi - great arrangement, great playing, beautiful music!
rickhayes - Posted - 07/30/2012: 08:56:37
That was an interesting collaboration with your fellow Uzbek musicians. I agree with the previous posters about Lazgi. It 's a great tune and you playing fits it perfectly and is beautifully performed. Oтлично играл!
darryl k. - Posted - 07/30/2012: 09:29:27
Love this! The banjo is such a rich, expressive instrument. It is great to hear it in different contexts.You are also a very fine musician.
Check out John Reishman and the Jaybirds with the Mei Han Red Chamber Orchestra. Nick Hornbuckle doing some of his fine 2 finger Blue Grass pickin.
youtube.com/watch?v=7LALgWz0xc...D4CB1585B
Edited by - darryl k. on 07/30/2012 09:42:23
butter9487 - Posted - 07/30/2012: 20:31:41
It takes courage to push yourself to new places that you have never been before... to test your limits... to break through barriers. And to do this as you have I applaud you and the other musicians thanks for sharing.
Paul Roberts - Posted - 07/31/2012: 10:43:44
quote:
Originally posted by butter9487
It takes courage to push yourself to new places that you have never been before... to test your limits... to break through barriers. And to do this as you have I applaud you and the other musicians thanks for sharing.
Well put.
Janna - Posted - 08/01/2012: 13:41:23
Thanks friends! I just don't have a chance to play banjo with bluegrass musicians, because I live in Uzbekistan and we don't have other bluegrass musicians here))) So I break through barriers while I'm living here in any case. I'm glad that my experiments with bluegrass banjo are interesting for you!!!
Edited by - Janna on 08/01/2012 13:42:26
Gareth Banjoland - Posted - 09/03/2012: 02:35:51
Yes, thats awesome stuff. Well played!
Dan Drabek - Posted - 09/03/2012: 18:33:53
My goodness, that banjo looks bigger than you!
I think this makes you the official Uzbekistani banjo ambassador. Well done!
I'm impressed with your adapting the banjo to Uzbek music, and equally impressed with the other musicians giving a creditable performance of FMB. You may be starting a new fad of pickin' and grinnin' in your country.
DD
Janna - Posted - 09/04/2012: 07:45:23
Thank you!
Janna - Posted - 10/02/2012: 14:32:52
Now I'm learning another uzbek tune on banjo! It's an Uzbek traditional dancing melody! When I'll learn it good enough for recording, I'll share it with you!
Now we're working on my new music CD, it will be a new style with all the new songs written by me in English!
Also I have a surprise for you - it's my first music video for the song written by Paul Roberts! I hope it will be ready in the end of this month!
Now you can follow me on Twitter, I'll try post news there too twitter.com/liltingtune and also in my BHO blog!
Thank you very much!!! I love you friends!
